Underscoring the wide-ranging nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this Companion provides new perspectives on areas such as Transcendentalism and its legacies, poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, and poetry before 'American Poetry.' 37 thematically organized chapters discuss death and dying in American poetry, Modernism, early and late experimentalisms, poetry addressing cinema and popular music, African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries.